22-Apr-15 Demand for hospital beds in Singapore is growing faster than supply, so the government has trialled a telehealth system in which patients took basic healthcare measurements at home and shared them remotely with their doctors. The pilot showed the potential to cut readmission of heart failure patients by about two thirds due to better monitoring. [image: Future Gov]

16-Apr-15 Johnson & Johnson announced it will establish a new Analytics Hub for its regional operations in Singapore. Through this project, the company aims to develop cutting-edge analytical assets by using data from its internal information along with external data sets. [image: Adalidda]

14-Apr-15 Five nursing homes in Singapore have banded together to buy in bulk machines that can measure various vital signs simultaneously, such as oxygen levels, temperature, blood pressure and pulse rate. The readings are transmitted automatically to a new IT system adopted by more nursing homes, to replace laborious paper records. [image: Straits Times]

18-Mar-15 In response to capacity pressure faced by Singapore's public healthcare, the government expects to add at least 1,700 acute beds by 2020, and Singapore’s private hospital market is expected to grow at 13% annually between 2015 and 2020. [image: Singapore Business Reveiw]

12-Mar-15 Pharmaceutical giant GSK has announced that it will use Singapore as a base to steer its growth in Asia, with the set-up of a new regional headquarters there. The new HQ will be “one of three co-global ‘control towers’ alongside the UK and US, with the full suite of capabilities and autonomy to make decisions in Asia, for Asia". [image: Reuters]